English Literature and Background Essay

MA (Previous) Semester I make-up I written report II musical composition iii newspaper IV Paper V Semester II Paper I Paper II Paper tether Paper IV Paper V Semester triple Paper I Paper II Paper ternion Paper IV Paper V History, structure and Description of position I position literary productions up to the Early ordinal nose candyI face writings up to the Early seventeenth coulombII side of meat writings of the Seventeenth & adenylic acid 18th speed of lightI slope Literature of the Seventeenth & vitamin A Eighteenth CenturyII History, social structure and Description of English II English Literature of the nineteenth CenturyI English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyII English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyI English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyII MA ( final) American LiteratureI Indian Writing in EnglishI Postcolonial Literature English terminology article of faith Inter-Disciplinary (ID-I) Writing for faculty member and Professional Purp oses SeminarSemester IV Paper I American LiteratureII Paper II Indian Writing in EnglishII Paper III Specializations 1) Womens Writing 2) Indian Literatures in interpretation 3) Modern Classics in Translation one specialization to be offered in each college Paper IV Project Work Paper V Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) Literature and Film Seminar division of English University College of liberal arts & affectionate Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester I(Papers I to V) Semester I(Papers I to V) Paper I social unit 1 History, Structure and Description of English-I a) Indo-European Family of Languages b) Descent of English Old English, Middle English and Modern English a) Language as a System of talk b) Levels of Language Description Phonology and Morphology a) phonic Description of Consonants b) Phonetic Description of Vowels a) Noun Phrase Structure (Determiners, pre and post modifiers, number, and gender) b) The Simple Sentence in English a) Verb Phrase S tructure (Verb types, tense, aspect, concord phrasal verbs) b) Coordination and Subordination (Semantic Implications) verbalism more example of satire in huckleberry finn building block 2whole 3 unit 4 unit of measurement 5Paper II unit of measurement 1English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth CenturyI Background Renaissance unsnarlation Development of British fun University Wits rime Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales sonnets 34 (Lyke as a Ship) Sonnet 54 (Of the Worlds Theatre) Sonnet 68 (Most Glorious lord of Life) Everyman in His humor The Duchess of Malfi The Spanish Tragedie Doctor Faustus building block 2 social unit 3 childs play Ben Jonson John Webster manoeuvre Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe unit of measurement 42 division of English University College of arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad whole 5 Prose Francis Bacon Sir Philip SidneyEssays (Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge) An Apologie for PoetriePap er III unit 1 building block 2English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth CenturyII Background Translation of the Bible Utopia Tragedy prank Drama William Shakespeare Drama William Shakespeare Poetry John Donne George Herbert Poetry AndrewMarvell Richard banglace King Lear henry IV Part I Twelfth Night The Tempest A Valediction, The regulationization The Good-Morrow Virtue, Pulley, Collar To His Coy harlot, Garden To Althea From Prison To Lucasta, Going Beyond the seasUnit 3 Unit 4Unit 5Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesI Background apologue Neo-Classicism Epic Rise of the English Novel Poetry John Milton enlightenment Lost (Bks I & IX) Poetry John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel Mac Flecknoe legend Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe enthalpy Fielding Joseph Andrews Prose John Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Up to testing of The Silent woman) Preface to Shakespeare (Up to the paragraph Samuel Johnson beginning So slipshod was this great poet 3Unit 5 incision of English University College of liberal arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, HyderabadPaper V Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesII Background Pastoral Poetry Restoration Comedy derision Sentimental Comedy Poetry Alexander Pope Poetry William Blake The itch of the Lock (Canto I) An Essay on Criticism (Part I) Songs of Innocence (The love, consecrated Thursday, The chimney Sweeper) Songs of Experience (The Tyger, Holy Thursday, The Chimney Sweeper, London, A Poison Tree) Elegy indite in a Country Churchyard The Way of the World The Rivals Sir Roger in Church The Aims of the Spectator Mr. Bickerstaff on Himself The Spectator ClubUnit 4Unit 5Thomas Gray Drama William Congreve R B Sheridan Prose Joseph Addison Richard Steele4Department of English University College of humanistic discipline & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester II(Papers I to V) Paper I Unit 1 History, Structure and Description of EnglishII a) Word Formation in English b) Change of Meaning a) Levels of Language Description Syntax b) Varieties of Language Dialect, Idiolect, Register, and trend a) Word Stress in English b) Properties of Connected Speech namby-pamby forms/Elision and Intonation a) Behaviourist and Cognitivist Approaches to Language Learning/ breeding Differences between First Language Acquisition and cooperate Language Learning b) part of English in India and the Objectives of Teaching English at the College Level a) Techniques of Teaching Prose, Poetry, Grammar, and Vocabulary b) Language TestingUnit 2Unit 3Unit 4Unit 5Paper II Unit 1 Unit 2English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyI Background Romanticism Fancy and Imagination Gothic historical Novel Poetry William Wordsworth S T Coleridge Poetry P B Shelley John Keats Intimations Ode, Tintern AbbeyRime of the Ancient Mariner Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark Odes On a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, To a Nightingale Emma Wuthering high schoolUnit 3Unit 4 fiction Jane Austen Emily Bront5Department of English University College of humanistic discipline & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit 5 Prose Charles lamb William Hazlitt Dream Children, Old China The Indian Juggler, The FightPaper III Unit 1English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyII Background Science and Religion Pre-Raphaelites Dramatic Monologue Realism and naturalism Poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning Ulysses, Lotos Eaters My Last Duchess, Andrea Del SartoUnit 2Unit 3G M Hopkins Matthew Arnold Unit 4 simile Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy Prose Matthew Arnold John RuskinSonnets from the Portuguese 21 (Say over Again ) 32 (The first time that ) 43 (How do I love thee ) Pied Beauty, Gods Grandeur, Windhover Dover Beach Hard Times Tess of the dUrbervilles The ingest of Poetry Unto This Last (Section I)Unit 5Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2English Lit erature of the Twentieth CenturyI Background Modernism Dada and Surrealism Symbolism Stream of cognisance Poetry W B Yeats T S Eliot Easter 1916, Second Coming, Byzantium The Waste Land6Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit 3 manufacture D H Lawrence Joseph Conrad Prose Virginia Woolf E M Forster Drama G B Shaw J M Synge Sons and Lovers Heart of Darkness A Room of Ones feature Art for Arts Sake (from Two Cheers for Democracy) Saint Joan Riders to the SeaUnit 4Unit 5Paper V Unit 1 Unit 2English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyII Background Postmodernism Impressionism Existentialism Movement Poetry Poetry Ted Hughes Phillip Larkin Seamus Heaney Fiction William Golding Graham Greene Drama Samuel Beckett Tom Stoppard lilliputian Story Roald Dahl A S Byatt Thought Fox, Hawk Roosting Churchgoing, Toads Digging, Punishment Lord of the Flies The Power and the Glory Waiting for Godot Indian Ink Lamb to the Slaughter Th e Umbrella Man Sugar (from Sugar and Other Stories)Unit 3Unit 4Unit 57Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Syllabus of M A (English) (With effect from 2009-10) MA (Final) Semester III(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 American LiteratureI Background American Frontier American Renaissance American Transcendentalism American Puritanism Poetry Phyllis Wheatley Walt Whitman On organism Brought from Africa to America When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomd, Out of the rock n roll musician Endlessly Rocking, Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry I taste a hard drink never brewed, She sweeps with many-colored brooms, After great pain a formal timbre comes The Scarlet Letter The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Hairy Ape Death of a Salesman The American Scholar Civil DisobedienceUnit 2Emily DickinsonUnit 3Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne Mark Twain Drama Eugene ONeill Arthur Miller Prose Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David ThoreauUnit 4Unit 58Depar tment of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in EnglishI Background Indian Nationalist Movement Use of English for political awakening Reform Movements Rise of the Indian Novel Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Ed Makarand Paranjape. Macmillan, 1993) Sri Aurobindo I have a hundred lives The Golden fall Thought the Paraclete Toru Dutt Sita,Our Casuarina Tree Sarojini Naidu The Pardah Nashin, Ghanashyam Fiction Krupabai Satthianandhan Mulk Raj Anand Fiction Raja Rao R K Narayan Prose Rabindranath Tagore B R Ambedkar Kamala a Story of Hindu life unobtainable Kanthapura The Man-Eater of Malgudi Nationalism in India (from Nationalism) The Annihilation of Caste (Collected Works of B R Ambedkar, Vol III)Unit 2Unit 3Unit 4 Unit 5Paper III Unit 1 Unit 2Postcolonial Literatures Background Colonialism-Imperialism Postcolonialism Nationalism Diaspora Poetry Christopher Okigbo Edward Brathwaite Jud ith Wright Heavens gateway, Death lay in Ambush Didnt He lay out, Calypso Eve to Her Daughters, Bullocky Things Fall Apart The Edible WomanUnit 3Fiction Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood9Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit 4 Drama Wole Soyinka Derek Walcott Prose V S Naipaul Ngugi wa Thiongo Kongis Harvest Dream on brownie MountainUnit 5Indian Autobiographies (from Literary Occasions Essays) The Language of African Literature (from Decolonizing the Mind)Paper IV ENGLISH LANGUAGE breeding Unit I History of English Language Teaching in India Some important landmarks a) Critique of Macaulays Minute b) Landmarks of English commandment in India after Independence Kunzru Committee, the three wrangle formula and Kothari commission. c) Ramamurthy instruction Report d) Curriculum and its components Syllabus/ Paper Design materials development major Approaches, Methods and Syllabi a. Traditional methods Use of the Gramm ar Translation method, Direct method, Reading method b. structural Approach Audio-Lingual Method, Types of syllabi structuraloral-situational, notional-functional linguistic competence and communicative competence misconduct analysis and Remedial commandment c. Communicative approach, Krashens Monitor pretense (Natural method) task based syllabus d. Humanistic Approaches Community Language Learning, Suggestopaedia schoolroom Techniques a. Lecture mode classroom discussion Peer and pair flow b. Role play Team teaching Teaching large classes. c. Teaching Aids Use of the Blackboard, flip charts, , OHP, audio visual tools, Television, d. Traditional and digital Language Lab the Computer and the Internet. Teaching of Language skills a. The teaching of listening, speaking, reading, indite and related study skills b. Teaching of literature c. Stylistic approach to the teaching of literature (norm, deviation, and foregrounding) d. Teaching of language through literature. 10Unit IIUni t IIIUnit IVDepartment of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit V Testing and Evaluation a. sizeableness of Testing, traditional testing methods Different types of tests b. Group Discussion (GD) c. Interview d. operate EvaluationPaper V Inter Disciplinary ID-I Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes Unit 1 Language CompetenceA. Communicative Grammar Nouns, articles, prepositional phrases, tenses theatre verb agreement, modal verbs,difference between spoken & written language B. Sentence structure, kinds of sentences-statements, interrogatives, question tags passive constructions, reported speech use of conditionals, flux & complex sentences C. Academic Reading read to write- focus on the gist, idiom, rhetoric, style and genre specific features in different texts intensive & critical reading, note making Unit 2 Organization of piece A. Guided make-up, expansion, use of connectives, sequencing, writing a pa ragraph free writing, foreland mapping. Paraphrasing, summarizing, writing an abstract Writing letters, resume and email ( e-mail etiquette)B. C.Unit 3 Academic Writing A. B. C. proposals, SOPs ( statement of purpose) structure of a report, report writing Writing an essay (descriptive, argumentative and scientific)Unit 4 Professional Writing A. Inter office memos, professional reports( business, survey, minutes of a meeting) B. Editing, writing a review, creative writing (Ad writing, slogan writing and writing headlines). C. Technical writing product and process writing, writing a user manual SEMINAR PRESENTATION11Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Final) Semester IV(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 Unit 2 American LiteratureII Background American Dream Multiculturalism Lost Generation American Comedy Poetry Robert cover Wallace Stevens Robert Lowell Unit 3 Fiction Ernest Hemingway Saul Bellow Drama Lorraine Hansberry Neil Simon short Fiction Henry James William Faulkner Issac Asimov West Running Brook, pedestal Burial Sunday Morning The Emperor of Ice-Cream For the Union Dead At a Bible House The Old Man and the Sea secure the Day Raisin in the Sun Sunshine Boys The Middle Years Go Down Moses The Bicentennial ManUnit 4Unit 512Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in EnglishII Background Decolonization Counter DisPapers Partition Literature fiction and Literature Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Ed Makarand Paranjape. Macmillan, 1993) Nissim Ezekiel Kamala das A K Ramanujan Unit 3 Fiction Salman Rushdie Shashi Deshpande Drama Girish Karnad Mahesh Dattani Short Fiction Bharati Mukherjee Enterprise Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher An Introduction The Old Playhouse A River, Love Poem for a Wife-IUnit 2Midnights Children The Binding Vine Hayavadana Final Solutions A Wifes Story, Management of Gr ief (both from The wholesaler and Other Stories, 1989) The Accompanist A Devoted Son (both from Games at Twilight, 1978)Unit 4Unit 5Anita Desai13Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper III (Specializations) A) Womens Writing B) Indian Literatures in Translation C) Modern Classics in Translation Paper III A) Womens Writing Unit 1 Background The Woman distrust New Woman Womens Liberation Movement Feminism Re-reading the Canon Prose Mary WollstonecraftUnit 2Vindication of the Rights of Women (Introduction and Chapter 2) The Second Sex (Essay on Biology)Simon de Beauvour Unit 3 Poetry Elizabeth Barret Browing Sylvia Plath Margaret Atwood Grace Nichols Anne Stevenson Fiction Virginia Woolf Nadine Gordimer Drama Carly Churchill Alima Ata AidooA Curse for a Nation Lady Lazarus Circle Mud Poems make Poetry, The Spirit is too Blunt an InstrumentUnit 4Mrs Dalloway July PeopleUnit 5Top Girls AnowaPaper III (B) Indian LITERAT URES IN TRANSLATION Unit 1 i) ii) Background Types of Natya (Nataka, Prakarana, and Prahasana) and Theory of Rasa and Kavya Indian Concept of Translation (from Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee, Chapter 2 & 3) Scope of Comparative Literature (Comparative Literature in India A Perspective by Bijay Kumar rabbit from Comparative Indian Literature ed. Rao & Dhawan) 14iii)Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad iv) Dalit Aesthetics (Dalit Literature and Aesthetics from Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature by Sharavan Kumar Limbale) Poetry Sangam Poety from Poems of Love and War Trans by AK. Ramanujan, Akam Poems Kurinci (page 15), Neytal (page 41),Palai(page 53), Mullai (page 81), Marutam (page 97), Puram Poems King Killi in Combat (page 123) Gurram Joshua I was one of them, The Bat Messenger (From Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry. An Anthology ed. By Velcheru Narayan Rao, OUP 2002) Jibananda Das Banala ta Sen, The Naked Solitary Hand (From Signatures ed by Satchidanandan, Sahitya Academi, New Delhi) Drama KalidasUnit 2 i)ii)iii)Unit 3 i)Abhgnana Shakuntalam from The Plays of Kalidasa by Barbara Stoller Miller, Ed capital of South Carolina University Press, 1984 Silence the Court is in Session (OUP)ii) Unit 4 i)Vijay Tendulkar Fiction PremchandGodan a novel of peasant India Tans by Jai Ratan and P. Lal Bombay Jaico, 1979ii)U.R Anantha Murthy Smakara A solemnity of Dead Man Trans by A.K. Ramanujan (OUP) Short FictionUnit 5 i)Folktales Bopoluchi (A Punjabi Folk Tale), Why the Fish Laughed (A Kashmiri Folk Tale), Folktales from India selected and ed. By A.K. Ramanujan, Penguin Books India, 1994. Ismat Chugtai Chauti Ka Jowra from inward Courtyard. Ed Lakshmi Holmstrom, Rupa, 2002. Mahasweta Devi Shishu from Womens Writing, Vol II Ed by Tharu & Lalitha, OUP, 1991.ii)iii)15Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper II I (C) Modern Classics in Translation Unit 1 Background promised land Bourgeois Experience Epic Theatre Magic Realism. Poetry Charles Baudelaire The dispirited muse, Even She was called Bautrice By Many Who knew Not Wherefore, The Remorse of the Dead Pablo Neruda What Spain was Like, The celestial Poets, Opium in the East Joseph Brodsky Odysseus to Telemachus, Nune Dimmittis, Nature Morte Unit 3 Fiction Gustav Flaubert Milan Kundera Drama Anton Chekhov Betrolt BrechtUnite 2Madame Bovary Book of Laughter ForgettingUnit 4The sanguine Orchard Mother CourageUnit 5Short Fiction Franz Kafka Gabriel Garcia Marquez PROJECT WORKMetamorphosis No one Writes to the ColonelPAPER IVPaper V Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) Literature and Film Unit1 Background a)Elements of a fib Theme, Plot, Structure, Setting, Character, Point of View b) Narrative devices genres, montage, carry noir, flashback, special effects Unit 2 Drama and Film a) George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1913) b) George Cukor (Dire ctor) My Fair Lady (1964) Unit 3 Novel and Film a) EM Forster A Passage to India (1924) b) David Lean (Director) A Passage to India (1984). Unit 4 Short Fiction and Film a) Ruskin constipate The Blue Umbrella b) Vishal Bhardwaj (Director) The Blue Umbrella (2007)16Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, HyderabadSuggested Reading Beja, Morris. Film & Literature, an introduction, Longman, 1979. Bluestone, George. Novels into film, Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Boyum, joyfulness Gould. Double Exposure Fiction into Film, Seagull Books, 1989. Corrigan, Timothy, ed Film and Literature An Introduction and Reader. Prentice Hall, 1999. Das Gupta, Chidananda. Talking about films. Orient Longman, 1981 Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds. Adaptations from text to screen, screen to text. Routledge, 1999. Elliott, Kamilla. Rethinking the novel/film debate. CUP, 2003. Literature Film Quarterly. McFarlane, Brian. Novel to film an int roduction to the theory of adaptation. OUP, 1996. Ray, Satyajit. Our Films, Their Films. Orient Longman, 1976. Reberge, Gaston. The Subject of Cinema, Seagull Books, 1987. Stam, Robert and Alessandra Raengo, eds. A blighter to literature and film. Blackwell Pub., 2004.SEMINAR PRESENTATION